While Anthony Albanese visited a Tasmanian bakery famous for scallop pies, local Liberal volunteers pulled up with anti-Labor posters and tried to take the spotlight.
Rapping on their corflutes, they claimed Mr Albanese was telling "absolute lies" as he sat at the Devonport Banjo's Bakery Cafe with a coffee and some pastries and spoke to Labor volunteer Syed Mahsein, who turned 70 on Friday.
But Mr Albanese remained relatively unfazed, and asked if he believed Labor could win a seat on an eight per cent Liberal margin at Saturday's election, he said "absolutely".
The business is located in the northwest Tasmanian electorate of Braddon, where Labor senator Anne Urquhart is challenging Malcolm Hingston for a lower house seat held by retiring MP Gavin Pearce.
Mr Albanese brought his campaign to the Apple Isle after spending Friday morning on the opposition leader's home turf.
He threw down the gauntlet on March 28 when he called the election and went straight to Peter Dutton's Brisbane-based electorate of Dickson in Queensland.
Asked if he was trying to "play mind games", Mr Albanese said he was "trying to win a seat" before expanding on the differences between himself and his opponent.
"We're very different people," he told reporters in Brisbane, alongside Labor's Dickson candidate Ali France.
"Hope versus fear, optimism versus talking Australia down.
"My opponent is fearful of the present and petrified of the future."
Mr Dutton has long fended off challengers and holds the north suburban seat on a 1.7 per cent margin.
Throughout the campaign, Mr Albanese has said Labor could take the most marginal seat in Queensland from the coalition leader.
With the election finish line in sight, Mr Albanese has been determined not to trip, and has taken his campaign back to what he thinks are Labor's strengths.
Mr Albanese visited his sixth urgent care clinic of the campaign on Friday in the Queensland seat of Longman with the local Labor candidate Rhiannyn Douglas.
The electorate, which covers the area between Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast, is held by the coalition on a 3.1 per cent margin and could be home to a new urgent care clinic should Labor win.
"When they walk in here, all they need is this: their Medicare card," Mr Albanese said.The prime minister has beaten the drum on the issue, brandishing his Medicare card on at least 10 occasions since the campaign started, and Australians have largely listened, with various pollsters tipping the election in Labor's favour as health policy wins over voters.
Mr Albanese will next travel to Victoria.
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